Le Pépé, Armagnac 74-gun Ship of the Line

The Duchy of Armagnac, since their secession from Glambria some hundred years earlier, had been struggling with maintaining a fleet in the shadow of the Glambrian and Albionic ones, maintaining their hegemony over the seas. 

In one of the recent clashes with their northern Catholic neighbors, they could lay their hands on a 30-year old 2nd rate ship of the line, Majesté Catholique. The name did not ring well for them, so they added a new one and painted over most of the gilding and decoration with a black and yellow scheme. 

Now the ship is named Le Pépé, and due to its solid build, large surface of sail and relatively little participation in armed conflicts ever since, she is in quite a good condition, forming the core of the Armagnac battle-line fleet.

The Schultze-Böhnstadt Navy is Growing

The Schultze-Böhnstadt Principal Navy has had no capital units so far to sail the grand seas. The country had instead relied on their Albionic allies when the necessity arose. 

Now, to stand on their own sea legs and protect their interests on the new continent, the Grand Cabinet of the Principality has decided to build large seaworthy vessels - the first four being 36-gun frigates. Most of the funding would come from the Flossian treasury paying interest after the previous war.

Princeps Gerhard Berthold von Jazygia has decided to name them the following: Dachshund, Wolfhund, Jagdhund and Schweinhund. 

Expanding the Schultze-Böhnstadt Universe

I've been getting back to Maurice for a little while lately, and I've got some plans concerning these imaginary 18th century nations.

You are all familiar with the old world map I've been using, the one which was created in Hexographer. Now I would like to do a new, extended one on paper that would include further away nations from the central continent. I would then create armies for them in the usual 6mm scale and customize each to play with Maurice.

On the main blog I'm on to naval themed things, and I could do so with this one as well. As most fleets would be small, early 18th century naval combat could be simulated with Fighting Sail or Galleys and Galleons.

So the old nations so far spoken of are:

Schultze-Böhnstadt (somewhat similar to Brandenburg-Prussia and Saxony)

Flosse (similar to Austria and the rest of the HRE dominion)

Glambria (similar to Bourbon France)

Armagnac (basically a separate Huguenot French country)

Quattro Formaggi (Italy)

Varangia (Sweden)

Leuwenthaal (Netherlands)

And the new countries would be:

The Great Empire of Tekirdag (Ottomans) and it's derivatives on The Continent of Rot

Medvetland (Russia)

The Rebel Provinces (Hungary and Transsylvania)

The Kingdom of Island Nations (United Kingdom)

There were plans for some of these as well earlier - I have a GNW Russian army disguised as the Army of Leuwenthaal, and also a complete Ottoman Turk army at my disposal.

I shall be working on the complete map this weekend whilst figuring out international relations between the new kingdoms and the old.